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Branch manager: Downtown Athens SunTrust to remain open during construction

published Saturday, January 4, 2014

The SunTrust branch in downtown Athens will remain open even as neighboring property is redeveloped.

The branch, at the corner of Broad and Lumpkin streets — and part of the historic downtown — is working out temporary parking details for when construction and demolition of what will be a mixed-use development is underway, branch manager Matt Adcock wrote in an email. Otherwise, there will be no interruption to banking services, he wrote.

The majority of the Broad-to-Clayton and Lumpkin-to-Hull block will be redeveloped into a retail-and-residential complex that will bring hundreds of new beds to downtown. Demolition is expected to start soon, according to the project’s local representative, and work has already been done to ensure the historic bank building won’t be harmed during the development process.